See those white specks in the liquid? That’s my DNA. Volunteers at the Mount Sinai Hospital and SciHigh booth extracted it from a sample of Gatorade I gurgled.

The Blue Sky Solar Racing team from U of T’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering showed off the newly retired solar-powered vehicle. Ben Mucsi, an engineering student and member of the Blue Sky team, says a new model will be unveiled in August.

This Madagascar hissing cockroach may look nasty, but U of T’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology volunteers assured us they were harmless.

“It’s good!” said this brave kid after munching on some mealworm granola, made by the U of T Bug Bites entomophagy club.

What do you get when you mix water with corn starch? This gooey non-Newtonian fluid! It turns from liquid to solid when pressure is applied. U of T’s chemistry department filled a kiddie pool with the mixture, allowing people to feel what it's like “to walk on water.”

The department of chemistry also brought virtual reality company VRPlayin to campus to showcase a space exploration game.

All aboard the liquid nitrogen train! Scientists from U of T’s physics department used the smoky stuff to teach attendees about superconductivity.

Attendees got to take a peek into the cosmos using the Astronomy & Space Exploration Society’s telescope.

Want a photo with an astronaut? Science Rendezvous has you covered.

Students from Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition showed off their remote-controlled invention.

The department of cell and systems biology found a novel – and gooey – way of explaining the makeup of cells.

U of T’s Seismic Design Team tested out Kinex structures on their earthquake simulation “shake table.”

Face painters were on hand to transform kids into their favourite animal – or even their favourite element.